Shangrong Lin, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Beijing, China, Riccardo Tortini, University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Nicholas C Coops, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jia Wen, Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, Zoran Nesic, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Eric Beamesderfer, University of Wyoming, Ephrata, PA, United States and Muhammad Altaf Arain, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada